Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-07
CALIFORNIA CRAZE.
II Is All Very Mica OF Paper, but IL is
No Place for These Who Have
Home and Honey TO Get
somsthIng More Sub staniisI than Climate
and Air R' CURED to Keep the Wolf
From tho Door.

WACO, TEX, Dec. 3, 1881
To the Editor of the Gazette.
In Texas we seldom, il ever, do eny~
thing until necessity compels us. Howl
ever, when we DO wake up aud becouA
interested in any enterprise we never do
anything by halves. and we always sue
coed in anything we undertake. We have
| Just a. this time decided that we need
more people and capital ia our state, and
when we "get move on" excuse the
slsng) we will surprise those people in
some of the adjoining and distant states,
and those of our people who are now pre-
pairing to pack up and leave Texas for
California would do well 10 stop g little
end look little out, as the good natured
and oily German would say. The would
| be California boom hunter will enjoy
a sure enough boom, and one that has g
solid foundation to it if he will just wait
few days. The prospects for pros
porous season in Texas were never better
than they are now. With what rain has
already fallen there is q fiue season in the
ground, and with the same amount of
rainfall that we bad last season which we
ere sure to have, if not more, good crop
is certainty. This with the rush Of
new people and capital that our railroads
are going to bring Us in the near future
will place Texas il the front rank and
no mistake, and those that
leave the state now am
aIraid will sincerely regret it. This thing
Of hunting bO0ms is not what it is
always represented TO be. The best
country is slwsys ''S few miles further
on" and il you vii! be patient and wait 5
| littIa while the boom will tod you, sud
esp5 cialIy will this be the case If you re-
main in Texas" Why, my dear sir,
would yen believe it, "there Is many
poor man and his family that is now in
CaliiorGia that would only be too glad to
get back to good old Texas, but you see
he spent most of his little cspi-
tai IN going there, and living there is
high" yes, very high, and now that he
wants TO return ne fuds that it takes
nearly, If not quite double, the money to
get back that it did to go, and taen he is
a Esd but wiser man. He nstura ~ finds
that he snd his family can't live on air
sud pleasant climate; it requires some
thing more substantial to keep the "wOi
from the door" The lands are out OF
his reach. He might get little land il
be had the money TO buy, but then he
would have TO buy the water to irrigGte
and he knows nothing OF farming in that
way, so you see he is completely at sea
| without g rudder, SO to speak. Oh,
yes, my dear fellow, California
is all very nice to read about, and may Go
pretty well for gentlemen Of leisure snd
those who have plenty Of cash, but for the
man who has q home and money to get,
it is the last place on earth to go to
Texas is without doubt the best state in
our blessed U0lon for the man with linn
tied or moderate mans. II g man don't
secure for himself snd family a comfort
able home in Texas he is no "rustler, "
and could not get home in any state or
country. It certainly is 8 mans own
fault if he is not land owner, or have q
place that he can call home ia Texas.
l have Just come from California
and think l know what l an talking
about, and as you well know have been
in Texas some years and know some little
of it, and while We have had our ups and
downs and all that, we must bear in mind
thst the state and country is yet 30 be
found with good crops every year, and
TexEs will aversge with most states now
! IN the way of crops, and when We farm as
we should, and as one would De compelled
60 in most states, we will surprise the
world with our products and v&riety Of
crops. You can go to Cslitornis IL you
wait TO sold pIrd," but
IS for me-, Texas is good enough and
vii! stick to the old snip yet while.
When I came here had no home, and l
know of any number of our old friends
VINO were in the same fix, but now, and
we have not been here but few years,
the NEST of US, those who have made suv
effort, have & good home, and il we stay
with it we are ell right. "Yuu bet, olo
boy" 1t would be e c. Id day in Jul when
we would be able TO get home in old
Kentucky, our old home. Where land is
SO high it is clear out OF the reach Of the
poor man, to say nothing Of Cali
, fornis, where they sell it by
, the inch and water the same way.
: Well, jim, $50 long," il you go,
| wish you success, but take myI ADVICE and
, consider we'll before you jump SO far.
Thanks, Tom, old friend; I'll go home
/ snd talk the matter over with the old
lady and the children, and we may recon-
slider and Try Texas for another year. II
the railroads would bring Us in some
J neigh6ors SO we could get s school in the
settlement, and Ssllie could send the
!. little ones-G0d bless them-to school,
, sac would feel more content and
satisfied We naturally thought when
we moved out there that others
would soon follow and we have been ps-
tiently waiting, but no neighbors have
come and we had about made up cur
minds to either 60 back TO old Kentucky
or go to California. Glad CHANGED to
| meet you here, Tom. Same to YOU, Jim;
good day and good luck be with you, and
we may yet often meet in Fort Worth;
hope so, at least.
The above conversation WIS overheard
| by GAZETTE rus;ler at the corner Of
, Fourth and Main streets yesterday, and
;. as the CalifoInis craze seems 10 have
caught some of our people, we give our
: readers the benefit of the observation and
experience of one who has been there.
III.